3rd grade

The jacksons have pet dogs named Beau and Max. Beau is 2 years older than Max. The sum of thier ages are 16 years. How old is Beau? How old is Max?

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Beauage-2=Maxage
Beauage + Maxage=16

substitute...
Beauage + (beauage-2)=16

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Since you are not learning algebra methods yet in third grade, write down combinations of two numbers that add up to 16, like 12 and 4. Then pick the combinatiuon for which the numbers differ by 2.
Beau is 9 years old
Max is 7 years old.

You can probably get this by trial and error, but I got it by getting half of 16 (8) and adding 1 to the number and subtracting one from the number, like this:

8+8=16

8+1=9
8-1=7
(1+1=2, the difference of their ages)

So, one of them is 9, the other is 7.

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